Mentions:
1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) China, Russia, India and others are opening new coal-fired power stations on an almost daily basis. - Speech Link
2: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby and Ainsty) It is getting on for two months since the debate on mining communities was set to take place on 1 February - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) region and nationally—to give this generation and future generations real opportunity.I grew up with coal - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) has been the engine for regeneration and new opportunities in that part of Ayrshire, marked by its mining - Speech Link
3: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) Armstrong, served as Member of Parliament, the market town of Bishop Auckland, which expanded to serve the coal - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) The profits to be made, whether from coal and steel, or, increasingly, from wind and waves, have been - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Robert Goodwill (Con - Scarborough and Whitby) the Labour party against the west Cumbrian coalmine, which would mean we would not have to bring in coal - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) We have considerable expertise in that matter, and that grade of coal is no good for the current way - Speech Link
3: Trudy Harrison (Con - Copeland) May I remind the House that a blast furnace simply will not function without coking coal? - Speech Link
4: Robert Goodwill (Con - Scarborough and Whitby) We have no domestic iron ore mining or, at the moment, domestic coalmining to feed blast furnaces. - Speech Link
5: Holly Mumby-Croft (Con - Scunthorpe) People say that we do not have coking coal capability in this country. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) dates back all the way to the 12th century, when the monks of Newbattle Abbey first began extracting coal - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) important efforts to address environmental concerns, including by announcing its goal to phase out coal - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) arrangements: water pollution controls in Germany, a ban on fracking in Canada and various regulations on mining - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) When I was a representative, for nearly 20 years, in a former coal mining community, there were many - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) This is the impact of mining on the rights of indigenous populations and the environment. - Speech Link
2: Lord Brennan (Non-affiliated - Life peer) We must help as and when required—certainly, diplomatically.There is plenty of mining of the strategic - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Brennan, indicated, often the mining concessions and their financing not only - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) Industrial spoil from coal mining once blighted it and the beaches were blackened with coal dust and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) But the air was not necessarily cleaner, because we burned coal to heat our homes. - Speech Link
2: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) which we take on the road to areas where lung cancer is most prevalent—for example, in some of the mining - Speech Link